Tag archive: Ruby

The deal is reported to be for $212 million. Founded in 2007, San Francisco-based Heroku allows Ruby programmers to deploy their applications using Heroku to host them. The service has grown in popularity thanks to its competitive pricing, eliminating the need for developers to build their own servers to launch and host an application. Heroku hosts all kinds of apps, such as thosse written for the iPhone as well as for popular social media sites… Read More

Storage vendor Iomega has announced a new generation of its eGo Portable Hard Drives, featuring a new streamlined look and capacities up to 500 GB. The new drives are available in four different colors (varying by market), although it looks like the Ruby Red model is the one most likely to top out at 500 GB, and is also available in 250 and 320 GB capacities. Other colors seem to be available in 320 GB capacities. The new eGo drives use… Read More

Finding computer with a loud color scheme that breaks away from the normal office grey is easy. Finding a pair of speakers or headphones that match, well, not so much. Creative extended a hand to style-conscious Dell consumers on Monday with a line of specially designed speakers and headphones matched exactly to Dell’s color palette. The company’s T10 and EP-610 headphones are now available in Jet Black, Plum Purple, Tangerine… Read More

Nikon has introduced a series of new, consumer-friendly Coolpix digital cameras meeting the needs of everyone from point-and-shoot shutterbugs to advanced photographers with more demanding needs—plus a new high-end DSLR camera for the truly serious photo crowd. Each of Nikon's new Coolpix cameras utilize the company's Expeed image processing, and are available in a variety of fashion-friendly colors. “We understand… Read More

Back in April, Redmond software giant Microsoft announced it would be taking on Adobe's market-dominated Flash technology with Silverlight, a new interactive platform for delivering "rich media experiences" across browsers and platforms. Today, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its Silverlight browser plug-in , and has announced it will be working with Novell to offer support for Linux. "Our expectations for… Read More

All five phones are for the European market only. Philips 162 The Philips 162 incorporates all the basic communication features required from a mobile phone, which will appeal to a wide range of users. Young and old will find it easy to handle thanks to its icon-based menu, large color display, navigation key and raised keypad. It comes in four trendy colors with a range of embedded polyphonic ring tones to accommodate every taste.… Read More

The success of the handheld console continues apace this Christmas, with the GBA occupying a comfortable second place behind the PS2 in terms of unit sales in the UK, and showing no sign of the year-on-year sales decline which has afflicted most other consoles. Nintendo is keen to promote the system as an ideal Christmas gift, and expects to bring the total catalogue of software available for the GBA to over 400 titles within the coming… Read More

The new model has sold at a rate of more than 10 per minute, non-stop, since launch. To build upon its success, Nintendo is launching new color casings. On Sept. 8, Onyx (black) and Flame (red) will join the current Platinum (silver) and Cobalt (dark blue) systems. Since its inception in 1989, Nintendo's Game Boy® line has become a household name as the world's most successful and storied video game system, selling through… Read More

The legal orders refer to sales of any items which have not been published by Nintendo in Europe – be that software or hardware – and follow on from a number of previous actions by Nintendo in the past, including the suing of CEX Games for carrying imported Nintendo products. Only last month, the company brought legal pressure to bear on small UK-based importer TQ Games, forcing the shut-down of the operation. Neither Sony nor… Read More

Nintendo of America Inc. announces new plans for marketing, sales and distribution of future editions of the Pokémon-e Trading Card Game (TCG) in North America. Nintendo is establishing a newdivision housed at Nintendo's Redmond, Washington, headquarters to manage the trading card business. Pokémon USA, Inc. based in New York City, will work closely with Creatures, the Pokémon TCGdesigners, and Nintendo of America in support of the TCG… Read More

The company plans to ship 2 million GBA SP units worldwide by the time the system has launched in all global territories at the end of this month. According to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain, demand for the SP remains high in Japan, and the system could have sold even more units had stock been available. Nintendo is being careful not to reduce the number of units available for its US and European launches – which are both… Read More

After a week in which Nintendo of Europe's boat has been rocked time and again by news of aggressive retail price cutting and threats of key retailers dropping the GameCube in the UK, some good news is forthcoming at last – albeit from the other side of the Atlantic. A new report from Nintendo of America shows that both the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance saw massive improvements in their fortunes in the USA last month, which… Read More